A GREENS MP has launched an extraordinary defence of spray can vandals, saying graffiti brightened up the city and could be attractive.Sue Pennicuik told State Parliament new laws cracking down on graffiti vandals were draconian and unnecessary. She said graffiti vandals were being treated more harshly than dangerous drivers.

Declaring that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, Ms Pennicuik said corporate logos were as much a blight on the landscape as graffiti. People who sprayed graffiti should be called graffiti markers, rather than vandals.

“A lot of graffiti, including tags, can be political, aesthetically pleasing and thought-provoking,” the Upper House MP said in a 48-minute speech. She said there were two points of view about graffiti, and “not everyone hates graffiti and not all graffiti is bad”.

Ms Pennicuik’s speech, and her bid to amend the new laws, were attacked by her rivals from across the political spectrum, with Labor MP Martin Pakula saying graffiti vandalism was idiotic.

“The vast majority of Victorians absolutely detest graffiti. They detest it because it is mindless vandalism,” Mr Pakula said.

He said that 95 per cent of graffiti was not art. “It is not self-expression, it is not clever, it is not political comment, it is mindless vandalism.

” Ms Pennicuik defended her speech, saying she was seeking to highlight concerns about the harsh penalties and police powers under the new laws, which were due to pass the Upper House last night.

She said offenders, who were mostly teenagers, could be jailed under the new laws. She said the laws also created a reverse onus of proof, meaning people found with suspected graffiti implements, such as spray cans and stencils, would have to prove they were in possession of them for legitimate reasons.

“I’m not saying there shouldn’t be any penalties — there should be — but that there should be a diversionary program for young offenders.

“Graffiti is a problem, I agree. No one likes tags particularly, and I don’t like them. But do we want two-year jail terms for 15-year-old kids to be the penalty?”

In her speech, Ms Pennicuik said the cost of cleaning up graffiti should not be the reason for making it a crime. She argued some graffiti walls, such as those in Hosier Lane in the city centre, were tourist attractions. “So what is the price of having clean walls?

“This Bill . . . is an over-reaction to the issue of graffiti.” Ms Pennicuik also told Parliament that “one could say the graffiti can break up the monotony of urban space”.

“While in one way of looking at it graffiti is annoying and costly, the other way of looking at it is that it is an acceptable way of expression and it could be tolerated, and is tolerated, in certain circumstances.”

Liberal MP Matthew Guy has a different view of graffiti. He and two friends recently chased a pair of graffiti vandals across three suburbs. Mr Guy said the trio were leaving a hotel after a Liberal Party function when they saw two men spraying a wall in Gipps St, Collingwood.

They chased the vandals across three suburbs, but gave up when a 000 operator accidentally disconnected them as they tried to contact police.  

To find out where preferences are allocated by the parties and candidates when you just mark above the line in the box on the Senate paper, click on the web link below. 

It is interesting to look at who the Greens have apparently done deals with around the Country.  Apart from the obvious coalition with Labor, Climate change and Carers figure prominently and BEWARE, so too does WHAT WOMEN WANT. 

Click here and discover that which they do not really wish you to know

http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/2007/candidates/gvt.htm

Have you all noticed that in the most important elections in 107 years, the Greens are conspicuous by their silence?

Has anybody actually bothered to consider just why that may be? 

The Greens know that whatever the outcome of the Federal Elections, be it Labor, or Liberal, to them it is of no consequence.  For whatever party attains power in the Lower house (House of Representatives), they will only hold power with an extremely slim majority.  Labor with a couple after a large win and Liberal with one, or two, after a major loss. 

The Greens expect to do well because everybody is focusing on the inane arguing and out right lying along with the superficial dirty tricks both sides of the fence the major two are playing, all the while ignoring the stealthy play of the radical Green sect. 

As long as everyone is getting sick and tired of the two major players, there is more likelihood of the two party disaffected voters looking for somewhere else to make their mark against and the Greens have been quietly positioning themselves as that place. 

As long as the Greens say little, or nothing, while the others snipe away at each other, there is no bad publicity about all that is most intrinsically wrong in the Green’s policies. 

The Greens will need very little to achieve the balance of power and effectively become the quasi governing party of this Nation and unless we the public open our eyes to this threat to the very life blood and sanity of the Australia we all love and know, this threat will become a reality and the likes of Bob Brown and his dedicated radical Green sect will rule from the bleachers. 

The House of Representatives is not the place that this election will be fought in, not at all.  It is the Senate where real power and success politically will emanate from and it is here that the Greens more than anywhere else, intend to dominate. 

People, vote for who ever you like and think may do a good job in the House of Reps, be it John Howard, or Kevin Rudd, but when it comes to the Senate ballot paper, think and think wisely.  The people elected here are people that we as a democratic people install to ensure that the checks and balances available to us so as to keep government honest, are in fact so installed.  It is necessary to ensure that the Senators who represent a whole State as their electorate and hence everyone is their constituent, are people that sincerely and honestly believe in carrying out this role first and foremost. 

It is also here that should there be an over whelming number of Labor, Liberal and now stealthily being sought, Green senators, then this coming Federal term will see the death knell of many a small Australian business and the demise of many a personal home.  Labor likes to denigrate the Lib/National Coalition, but in truth, Labor is really a Lab/Green coalition and of the two, the latter sends shudders up my spine for the future well being of this Nation should they attain power in both the Senate and the House of Reps. 

There are many fine Independent Candidates out there that have their heart and soul in the right place to be elected into both houses of Parliament over and above the party machine hacks of all three of these above players. It is now time to give these guys a chance to prove, that the generalised understanding and notion that Independents are an ineffective choice to vote for, is in reality a Party machine indoctrination of the masses to incite you subconsciously, to disregard them as a consideration. 

It has worked for years and many a fine person has been denied the opportunity to serve their Nation as your representative.  This indoctrination is paramount to the party machine survival, for if Independents are in the mix with the citizen’s blessing, the party machines and their dirty tricks, along with their closed door underhanded dealings, are blown out the door and the very thing that is an absolute anathema to them, would in fact become a reality, they would actually have to SERVE the Public. 

It is illegal for me to TELL you how to vote, but it is not illegal for me to tell you how I voted and yes, as I will be away on assignment, I have already cast my vote and made my marks. 

In the Lower House I voted for the Candidate that I wanted and was available to me, with my subsequent numbering ensuring my preferences went where I could best place them, but I guaranteed that the Greens were the last number I marked. 

The Senate ticket can have a mark above the line in one box only, or this year, 79 numbers placed below.  I elected to mark every box below the line to number 79 and as I did so I ensured that my vote was placed where I wanted and in so doing controlled my preferences so that the Greens and any party ever so slightly aligned with them, either directly, or ideologically, ended up last. 

Liberal, or Labour in power, is of no real consequence as long as a strong Independent, democratic force of representatives is in the senate to offset the continual wrong doing that has come to disgrace Federal, State and Local Politics. 

Lets make 2007 the road to change and the path to honest political servitude and remake Australia as number one in the lists of the Countries the rest of the Globe’s citizens wish to emigrate to.  

At least I know I used my vote to try.  Will you? 

Brumbyy with 2Ys.

So it is time to vote for a new Federal government to run the country for the next term.  The Lib’s have been around long enough to allow any self respecting voter to know exactly what they stand for in the future and if voters need John Howard to travel the country telling them what and who he is, this Nation is in real trouble from the outset. 

Mr Rudd and his compatriot in political aspirations Ms Gillard are the figure heads for a Labor movement that is dominated by massive Union influence and should they be elected to office, there definitely will be a resurgence of Union activity foisted upon employees across the Land.  Those with a memory of past decades have seen what unfettered union power is capable of. 

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Professor Rosenfeld, an internationally acclaimed scientist in his field and Aaron Gingis, an Australian leader in cloud seeding and particulate pollution matters, have been lobbying the Australian government for years to come to terms with rainfall decrease across areas of Australia due to industrial particulate pollution effects.

Particulate pollution has scientifically been proven to cause inhibited rainfall over vast areas downwind of such pollution and NASA has applauded Professor Rosendale for his work.

The Snowy mountains and western Victoria and NSW, are areas that have been dramatically affected by decreased rainfall and there is much evidence to suggest that particulate pollution from southern industry is playing a large part in this climatic change, yet no one seems to want to go down this path, especially not the Greens.

The ramifications of accepting the facts and dealing with the truth are too much to handle for the political minions of the major parties, but the Greens, who project themselves as the saviours of the Nation’s environment, are most conspicuous by their silence on the scientific realities of this perpetrator of drought.

Not a bloody word about particulate pollution for the iconic Snowy Mountains and the subsequent environmental and commercial rural suffering that is indirectly resultant from the lack of big snow and rainfalls in the H2o lungs of the eastern States. An issue that we all would expect to hear screamed from every Green soapbox across the country.

Yet when there is a stance to take against the Tasmanian Timber Company, Gunns, the Greens have no problem in using a truth they hide in the closet from, to satisfy their insatiable desire to attack this Australian Company.

We kid you not, the Greens, Federal & State under the Bob Brown leadership have not only declared their hand of environmental duplicity, but will for a dollar, swap their environmental stance for the opening of a cheque book, even if that cheque book contradicts all they convey to the public as a reason to consider themselves worthy of your vote. The Gunns, Greens & Cousins expose’ makes classic reading as one such example that SOS-NEWS has investigated, with others to follow. - Click Here

The Greens hate the Gunns Corporation with such vehemence that they are prepared to throw caution to the wind and overtly admit that particulate pollution is not only real, but it has the clear propensity to seriously affect climate in other countries, oceans away.

What is more telling, is that the Greens are more concerned with the New Zealand Ski season than the very issues here in this country where misguided citizens elect them to represent by sound governance and policies.

Read an excerpt from a report on the espousals of two Tasmanian feral Greens, that at the time were elected politicians in the Tasmanian political arena. If this doesn’t cause the reader to shudder at the thought of inadvertently having cast a vote for the Greens under the belief they stood for sound government and good environmental policies, then such people should have their right to vote removed.

And now for the diplomatic incident we are going to have with New Zealand. According to the Greens’ submission, pollutant emissions from the pulp mill could extend to New Zealand, 1600 kilometres away, and cause a reduction in the New Zealand ski season by five days.

There will also be damage to New Zealand’s agricultural sector because pollutants from the pulp mill will suppress rainfall, the Greens claim. This, their submission argues, “could result in international legal action against Australia”, or Gunns.

National Parks Association Christmas Party 2007

Come join us at our end-of-year thank you for our members, volunteers and staff! This will be the final event for our 50th Anniversary year and we are pleased to announce Richard Torbay MP(pictured - Armidale Independent) as our host for the evening.

When: Wednesday December 5, 6pm to about 8pm

Where: Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney

Cost: Free

Drinks and light refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to Suji on 9299 0000 or by email:office@npansw.org.au by Wednesday November …

Not a government organisation, yet are consulted by government bureaucrats and we the people are expected to accept they are an independent body.

The recently held a meeting in a government building on the books of the NSW National Parks to discuss strategies for the south coast marine park that our spies observed with a nice selection of government vehicles in attendance. That we hall hire and snack we must assume were FREE like this Xmas knees up, also held in a government building, with the one exception that the “Pollie Wanting a Cracker” is and independent from Armidale - WHY?

How much more of this bulldust will the people continue to take from these radical green groups and politicians hunting preference votes, before they get the message.

Now may I recommend that our readers RSVP to help with the catering and those that can make it, ENJOY, and its all FREE

Gunns, the well targeted timber company by Bob Brown and his radical greenies has won the right to start work on a $1.8 billion dollar pulp mill in Tasmania.

Not an admirer of Federal Government Environmental Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, SOS-NEWS must take off our hat to his adjudication on this issue of compliance to suit the environment and the greens, as he approved the project that has been quoted producing a zero damage to the environment.

The ruling has been made and Gunns wish to start the project within weeks, executive chairman John Gay said to the construction on the Tamar Valley mill, but the umpires decision, falling foul of Bob Brown and his radical ratbags lines, having started the threats we all know when they loose to facts as their fiction is dismissed.

The first cab off the rabag rank is a promise to fight as fierce as the historic battle against the Franklin River Dam, which was scrapped in 1983, in which Bob Brown was jailed, yes a politician in parliament JAILED and still allowed to be there.

Here comes the blackmail, “the Australian Greens have vowed not to preference neither major party in Tasmania, after Labor pledged its support for the pulp mill”.

Time for the expert academic devotee, pollution reduction expert Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith has disputed claims the mill is world’s best practice, who is an international chemical lawyer and coordinator of the National Toxics Network .. a chemical lawyer? We can see where this is going as the legal vultures circle.

She told Australian ABC radio, Sweden had set the standard, that is world’s best practice, that is what we have called for and that is not what Tasmania is getting,” further claiming the pulp mill is not the world best.

Now enters the fifth columnist, a key opponent and former adviser to Prime Minister John Howard, Geoffrey Cousins, said he hoped to talk the banks out of financing the project.

“No I don’t think so, you know the political battle is obviously shifting ground and when you have got both of the major parties holding hands and walking down the aisle together, clearly one has to look to other areas,” Mr Cousins told ABC Radio.

He said he hoped to have talks with the major banks, such as ANZ, (Gunns has been an ANZ client since 1995) which had policies of not funding projects that had not had proper environmental assessments.

So here we have a bank, that is a private company, telling the Federal Government “they have not conducted a proper assessment” - does this tell you the corporate manipulation process of our government is alive and very well?

Further in a statement, ANZ bank says it is still considering whether to finance the construction of the pulp mill and said it had commissioned an independent technical review of the proposed mill to inform its decision.

Now if you bank with ANZ, and did not know they had this policy to align with the greenies, as they must have a greenie gun at their head in some manner, like the two major political parties where they use preference votes as bullets, you can shift your accounts to a bank that does not host radical greens - TOMORROW, which en mass you will divert their attention back to banking overnight.

The greenback is the dollar, and has the ANZ bank’s true colour, but if it is threatened in anyway, then the greenback will take 100% preference to the bank over the green political policies.

Your move.

 

Hansard from the recent sitting of the NSW Parliament exposes the shallow depth of the upper house radical greenie Lee Rhiannon (pictured).

I have owned smarter dogs than this woman. 

START:

Ms LEE RHIANNON: I direct my question to the Treasurer. Given the revelations on Monday this week by Federal Treasury officials that the Federal Government has done no economic modelling on the effect of climate change or emission trading and the comment of his Federal colleague Wayne Swan that the Federal Government is flying blind on the economic impacts of climate change, will he tell the House what economic modelling the New South Wales Treasury has done on the effects of climate change and greenhouse gas abatement schemes in New South Wales, when these studies were carried out and where the results have been published?

The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: Again, this is a most idiotic question. I am not saying that the member is an idiot—even though she is—I am questioning the question, which is idiotic. I have given some figures and talked about the global impact of greenhouse gases. We are clearly talking about a global system from which one cannot extract a particular region—and certainly not one derived by historical lines on a map—and try to produce a model. New South Wales Treasury has not modelled the economic impacts of climate change on the State, nor would I expect it to. The suggestion is ridiculous. I take it that the member has read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in detail. Being a member of the Greens, she and her colleagues surely would have read it. Have you read it? Of course, they have not. They will not confirm it.
 
The PRESIDENT: Order! I ask the Minister to address the Chair.

The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: I am happy to address the Chair, but it is obvious these members have not read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which is supposed to be the bible on climate change. The Greens go all over the country talking about these things, but as I have pointed out previously, they cannot get even basic facts right, such as the fact that Australia contributes only 1.5 per cent of total global greenhouse gases. They cannot even get a basic fact like that right, yet they come into this place and purport to understand the modelling of a very complex phenomenon and expect that modelling should be done on a subregional level. It is ridiculous.

I will explain it to the member. The atmosphere works on the basis that it does not matter where the gases are produced; they go into the atmosphere and move around the globe. That is why we have had phenomena in the past wherein natural CO 2 from a volcano has blanketed the globe even though it has come from a specific location. The question is not only silly but it also shows a lack of knowledge of the issue. This is typical of the Greens; they have latched onto this. It is not about climate change. They should have read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. This is the normal anti-capitalist rhetoric that they have gone on with for years. They have latched on to this because it is the latest way they can attack our lifestyle and urban civilisation and try to return us to the Stone Age. We all know they are opposed to farming. In this very Chamber they have railed against commercial farming.
Ms Lee Rhiannon: Point of order: Mr President, I draw your attention to Standing Order No. 65. Clearly an answer must be relevant to a question. The Treasurer has strayed a great distance from the question, which was specifically about what his Treasury is doing about this matter.

The PRESIDENT: Order! I again remind the Treasurer that his answer must be relevant in general terms.

The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: I am always relevant. But I accept that you want me to be even more specific about this.
 
The PRESIDENT: Only relevant, Minister.

The Hon. MICHAEL COSTA: Relevant and specific I will be. The Greens have not even had the decency to read the major report—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. If they were to look at it, they would see that some of the associated working party documents deal with the very analysis they are talking about. It projects the cost to the global economy of some of these policies. Even the Stern report—which has been criticised by economist Professor Nordhaus because it did not use proper social discount rates to establish the real cost of these reports—questioned the veracity of some of the nonsense that the Greens go on with. Climate change will cost money.
 

 

The revelations, re the scientific sham used to force Batemans Bay Marine Park upon the NSW south Coast citizens, from such an important fish biologist as Professor Kearney of the Canberra University leaves the head of the environmental departments in NSW with little option.

There can be no course of action for the ghostly spectre of Lisa Corbyn other than to resign and take her millstone underling Dr Tony Fleming with her, but you can bet your boots this covert operator will hide behind the curtains as she has been doing since her appointment, peeking out and leave all the flack to fall on the likes of Fleming

Minister Fire Hose Phil Koperberg, has to rescind all legislation by ministerial decree and return to the drawing board and this time use real scientists and listen to those with south coast history and experience.

No wonder Bob Debus resigned from State Parliament, he could see the writing on the wall and knew he needed to get his grubby hands on the Federal environment portfolio at the expense of Peter Garret, or he too would sit atop of the political scrap heap. 

There is always option two! - Bob Carr has a place at the boardroom table of consultation to the insidious merchant banking group, Macquarie Bank.

This is the NSW gutless government, so don’t expect great things to happen as the rats desert the ship, for it is almost a foregone conclusion that the Corbyns, Flemings and others will find a nice niche for themselves within the halls of power when you don’t have power and join the incredibly undemocratic rulers of NSW in some form or another such as a radical green lobby group surreptitiously funded by the same government they were forced to leave.

Professor Exposes Dr Tony Fleming and the Iemma Government The NSW government DPI science paper Professor Kearney (pictured)dissects in his paper released yesterday is, “A review of benefits of Marine Protected Areas and related zoning considerations” (Marine Parks Authority New South Wales undated).Here the issue of balance, or lack thereof, begins to emerge; one may well question the objectivity in having “the Science Paper” on Marine Protected Areas consider only the benefits.

Ex-NSW Premier, Bob Carr, and Ex-Environment Minister, Bob Debus have run from the fold of inept political management of NSW environments - in this particular case, Bob Debus has left his bro- in-law, fire-hose Phil Koperberg, to continue his covert theft of the peoples southern NSW coast line, with the rest to follow soon.University of Canberra, Professor Bob Kearney has slammed the manufacturing of the scientific sham that was used to force that which should never have been. Lecturing the Australian Society for fish Biology at Canberra on the 12th September 2007 he cited Bateman’s Bay Marine Park, exposing the false reasons they claimed, and have now locked up.

Bob Kearney, BSc (Hons), PhD, DSc, is Emeritus Professor of Fisheries at the University of Canberra. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the World Fish Centre, a member of the Research Committees of the Australia & Pacific Science Foundation and the Pacific Biological Foundation, and a member of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee of the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage. He is the author of 150 scientific and technical papers and the recipient of more than $20 million in research grants.

The Science Paper is attributed as, “Prepared on behalf of the Marine Parks Authority Scientific Committee”: an attribution which projects the full authorization of the
Authority and the scientists therein. The Marine Parks Authority’s own assertion that this process will be driven by “thorough scientific assessments of all available information and data”.

The documentation relating to the creation of the Batemans Marine Park is perhaps best described as very poorly disguised advocacy marketed to the unsuspecting public as science. This is a sham. So much so that not only does it totally discredit the Batemans Marine Park but it calls into question the credibility of the Marine Parks Authority and the justification of all existing and proposed marine parks in New South Wales.

Prof Kearney elaborated on several items in his submission of October 15, 2006 to the Marine Parks Authority. So why would not these public servants implement suggestions for the world most imminent person on this field?

“He documentation relating to the creation of the Batemans Marine Park is perhaps best described as very poorly disguised advocacy marketed to the unsuspecting public as science. This is a sham. So much so that not only does it totally discredit the Batemans Marine Park but it calls into question the credibility of the Marine Parks Authority and the justification of all existing and proposed marine parks in New South Wales”

To read out comments and download the Professors Paper in pdf format 
click here Make sure you pass it around as a must read exposure of agedna driven greens stopping at nothing to impliment lock it up at all costs.

This article was published August 22nd, 2007 in SOS-NEWS when the concerned people were shunned by Dr Fleming, Radical Green Public Servant -Read On…

People Ignored By Parks Minister

Three members of Coastal Rights Association were invited to Sydney to discus the issues of concern at the Batemans Marine Park with Minister Verity Firth (pictured), Minister Assisting the Minister For Climate Change(Environment), Koperberg, and others.This meeting was of major importance to the people of the South Coast of NSW and was scheduled for 11am on Monday 20th August 2007.Batemans Bay to Sydney is 275 km, and for CRA President Jack Tait’s wife to receive a phone call from a staff member at the Ministers office 20 minutes, prior to the meeting, looking for Jack personally, which was to her amazement seeing the trip to Sydney was over 3 hours.About 4 minutes later Jack received a call on his mobile saying the Minister would not be in attendance due to ill health.With hours of planning to get this meeting organised, and their presentation ready, which now seemed doomed, while knowing the anger in their community over this (imposed without proper consultation) Marine Park, the meeting did go ahead with NPWS CEO, Dr Tony Fleming, conducting the proceedings.

A staff stenographer was present to record minutes, but when Jack Tait (pictured left) asked to tape the meeting he as REFUSED quoting they did not want any media involved. Minutes of the meeting were not offered to the CRA members either.

It was interesting that the subject marine park manger was flown from the NSW south coast to Sydney, taxi from airport to meeting, then the return trip, all at taxpayers expense, considering the meeting arrangements were “WITH THE MINISTER” not the flunkies.

During conversation Dr Fleming (pictured) stated that no boundaries of the new park would be moved, that is set in concrete.

This meeting is the result of Fire Hose Phil Koperberg, and the DSE, not wanting to discuss the marine park with the people before they rushed their agenda driven legislation through parliament. Only by sheer persistence was this meeting convened.

Our sources up at the top in the halls of power, suggest that the Ministers illness may have been caused by the thought of serious unanswerable questions
presented from the CRA members, plus the thought of bad answers which would have not be to the liking of Dr Fleming’s agenda and his bureaucratic control,
so he assumed minister status for the occasion.

To quote the “A Team of TV fame - “it’s nice when a plan comes together”.

If you think Phil has no idea, good old verity, we are told, has 100% less, but they dance to the piper in the Fleming controlled zones.